In my slow cooker today...

RainyWednesday

Left over veg soup with pearl barley, made with the stock from the lamb joint from Monday. Very thrifty

slm6002

i am going to try morocca spiced lamb with apricots. sounds quite adventurous for me but will give it a try!

elf06

I am just about to start the curried parsnip soup!! Absoloutly love curried parsnip soup and hope this tastes as good as it sounds - fingers crossed

MissyMAD

I have a woopsie pork leg (boneless) in mine today. Have stood it on an upside down bowl with water in the bottom of the slow cooker.

Hopefully will turn out ok!

debs2327

right im going give the whole chicken a go today , my mil bought me a chicken and ive read on here about doing it in the sc and everything ive done in it up to now has been gorgeous so going to cook the chicken in it today any1 any tips to make it not just a boring chicken ?

missychrissy

In my sc today is a half leg of lamb (Aldi £4.49) with a chopped red pepper, 4 carrots chopped small, a large chopped onion, 2 tablespoons of red lentils and one tablespoon of barley. I have added 2 teaspoons of French seasoning (Aldi - also do Italian, Chinese and Hungarian in quite big bags for 99p each), garlic and chilli grinder (B & M) and black pepper. I always add the salt, to taste, later when cooking pulses.

I will be doing jacket potatoes with it. One of my sons and girlfriend coming round for dinner tonight so will be more then enough for us all plus should get several one portion sized dinners for the freezer. I take these to work with me - just select a dinner from the freezer on my way out and it is usually nicely thawed by the time I need to eat.

elf06

missychrissy wrote: »

In my sc today is a half leg of lamb (Aldi £4.49)

Was that a frozen one??

Sublime_2

Hello, I need some advice. I'm making soup using left over beef stew, stock, and a bag of dried pulses, but I forgot to preboil them, although I soaked overnight. I'm now worrying if its safe for my children to eat.

I have checked the complete slow cooker collection, and have googled, but there is a lot of contradicting info. Some say to soak and preboil for 10 mins, while others say thats just for kidney and soya beans.

Its a Sainsburys dried country soup mix which contains, dried peas, dried barley, dried lentils, and Aduki Beans.

Any help would be much appreciated.

elf06

I have used Mr T's soup mix without boiling first but not sure if it contained Aduki beans. The rest should be fine but maybe worth googling info on aduki beans. sorry not much help x

ETA - what does the pack say on it??

Sublime_2

Thanks for replying Elf.

The pack says to soak overnight and boil rapidly for 10 mins especially if adding to soups. The difference is I am cooking on high setting in my slow cooker for approximately 8 hours in the soup (rather than cooking and adding to soup later).

Aduki beans were what was worrying me. I have googled, but there are contradictions. Has anybody used them just soaked in their slow cooker before? Any advice is welcome.